Nokia Intros C3, E5, C6 Messaging Touch Phones

Nokia's slim new C3, E5 and C6 phones put an emphasis on messaging and multitasking. Nokia Messaging was also introduced and will run on all Cseries and Eseries phones, enabling, for example, support for up to 10 e-mail accounts.

Nokia launched three slim mobile handsets April 13-the C3, E5 and C6, each
with a focus on messaging.

"The one constant across all three devices, and now also across both Cseries
and Eseries is Nokia Messaging," Nokia officials said in their Conversations
blog. "Having grown from humble beginnings, the service has evolved and
matured to offer a range of services now covering email and Instant Messaging."

Nokia Messaging offers support for up to 10 e-mail accounts-including business
accounts through Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes Traveller, as well as
Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, Ovi Mail and other e-mail offerings. Instant messaging
support is also generous, including chat apps from Ovi, Yahoo, Google and
others.

Click on a contact, and you can additionally choose to reach out through
options that include e-mail, SMS messaging, Facebook or, if you're really
feeling crazy, an actual phone call.

The Nokia C3 is the first Series 40 device to offer a full QWERTY keypad. It
features a 2.4-inch touch screen, WiFi connectivity and support for up to 8GB
of storage with a microSD card. Ovi Mail and Ovi Chat are one click away, and a
feature called SMS chat puts text conversations on the home screen, enabling
uses to simultaneously see other news and alerts.

The C3 will arrive in the second quarter of 2010 in golden white, slate gray
and hot pink, for about $122.

The E5, which is said to be a combination of the best of the E71 and E72, has
serious bragging rights on the battery front, delivering a reported 18.5 hours
of talk time. It also features a 2.4-inch touch screen, as well as 5-megapixel
camera. Storage here is 250MB on board, with room for 16GB more on a microSD
card.

In color choices of carbon black, chalk white, sky blue, copper brown and silver
gray, the E5 will arrive in the third quarter for about $244.

The C6 is a slider phone, with a four-row QWERTY keypad that extends from the
longest side of its 3.2-inch HD touch screen. Three's a 5-megapixel display, 7
hours of talk time (in GSM mode), FM stereo radio, Ovi Maps for walking and
driving directions, and support for a 16GB microSD card.

Michelle Maisto has been covering the enterprise mobility space for a decade, beginning with Knowledge Management, Field Force Automation and eCRM, and most recently as the editor-in-chief of Mobile Enterprise magazine. She earned an MFA in nonfiction writing from Columbia University, and in her spare time obsesses about food. Her first book, The Gastronomy of Marriage, if forthcoming from Random House in September 2009.